alice through the looking glass film quotes

The ‘wasp in a wig’ is thought to be a play on the more usual phrase, ‘having a bee in one’s bonnet’.Īs a masterpiece of nonsense literature, it’s perhaps unwise to analyse Through the Looking-Glass too closely in search of deeper meanings and subtexts, although it’s certainly true that aspects of the novel can be made to resonate with Freudian significance (Carroll was writing before Freud, but psychoanalysis encourages us to go back and read classic works of literature with an awareness of the Freudian unconscious and how it operates). It was finally published nearly 120 years after the book first appeared. Carroll took out this section from the book before its publication, possibly because his illustrator, John Tenniel, couldn’t ‘see way to a picture’ (according to a letter Tenniel wrote to Carroll in June 1870). If you’ve ever used the words ‘chortle’ or ‘galumph’, or encountered the linguistic term ‘ portmanteau word’, or the phrase ‘jam tomorrow but never jam today’, or the idea of ‘being through the looking-glass now’, you’re dealing with the legacy of Through the Looking-Glass.Ĭuriously, one chapter of the novel, featuring a wasp in a wig, remained unpublished until 1990. Perhaps if I'd come bearing tea and crumpets, with a bewildered, bespectacled white rabbit clutching a pocketwatch in his paw, you'd have been more willing to give me the time of day.Through the Looking-Glass has embedded itself within the popular consciousness, and even the everyday language we use, more than pretty much any other single work of children’s literature – indeed, even more so than the novel it was a sequel to, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I seem to recall Alice spent the better part of her time being irritated and flustered, too. You make a charming and somewhat more quirky Alice than I'd have expected. 'YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO HAVE A TEA PARTY,' he read out loud, then smiled at her.

She lifted her arms away so he could read the script that accompanied the copy of an original pen and ink art rendering of the Hatter seated at a long table, holding a teacup aloft. What does it say?' He nodded toward her apron front. I must say, this dry side of you is surprisingly appealing. Because I'm certain the staff would have greatly appreciated the humor in them.' 'Since I was little and my mom taught me to bake.' When he smiled, she arched a brow. “On closer notice of her apron, he said, 'Is that-?'

Alice through the looking glass film quotes